Chapter 568 Survive with a broken tail

Gu Yanwu was sulking, but He Shouxin had no time to take care of it.

Seeing that the hour had come, he gave the order, and the three platoons of soldiers set off first.

According to the battle plan, they will be led by a guide to enter the city through a stinking secret waterway, and then, under the cover of the darkest night before dawn, they will make their way to the city gates along the shore of Slender West Lake.

According to He Shouxin's temperament, of course, he wanted to personally command this sneak attack battle of the third platoon.

However, he was now a wound - the piercing wound to his left arm, although not fatal, made it impossible for him to do violent movements for the time being, and he could not even handle a spear.

What's more, the medic adamantly disagreed with the contamination of his wounds – which Dr. Yu had said was a great risk of causing "sepsis."

He Shouxin had no choice, so he had to line up honestly with the Zheng Jun brigade to board the ship.

Before boarding the boat, he once again pulled the secretary who stayed behind and told him - be sure to ensure the safety of Master Gu!

The three platoon commanders were very competitive.

When he led the warriors to sneak into the city one after another from the secret passage, divided into more than a dozen battle groups, and suddenly appeared at the head of the city, several teams were either nervous or sleeping city guards, never dreaming that the thieves would touch from behind.

One of the sentries seemed to have noticed something, but it was pitch black behind him and he couldn't see anything clearly—he didn't dare to light any more bonfires at the head of the city for fear of being targeted by the thieves' sharpshooters—and he could only hear the sound of a rope not far away, which grew louder and closer......

However, before he could scream, a ghostly light flashed, and a military thorn suddenly flew out of the shadows and plunged directly into his neck......

When He Shouxin entered the city, the third platoon commander had already led people to block the gate of the western barracks and the Admiral's Mansion in Tartar City.

Immediately, the two machine guns of the machine gun squad were in place, and the muzzles of the guns were pointed directly at the camp gate, and just beside them, the two mortars had also been quickly erected......

After a short time, when the brigade of Sergeant Zheng guarded all parts of the camp, He Shouxin immediately gave the order to open fire.

When one shell after another flew into the camp at a rapid pace, blowing up the Tartar officers and soldiers who were still in their dreams to pieces, tendons, and limbs flying sideways, the camp screamed and became a mess......

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In the enemy tower in the north city, Cui Duyan, the guard general who had been sleeping peacefully, was also awakened by the sound of gunfire at this time.

At first, when the gunshots only rang out sporadically around the south gate, he was still a little annoyed - this group of damned thieves came to harass us at night again and disturb our army's heart?

He put on his clothes haphazardly, went out with a curse, and looked at the battlements.

However, apart from the large camp at his feet, it was dark and impossible to see anything further away.

After calming down a little, his first instinct was to send his own soldiers and quickly go to investigate.

In short, he didn't believe that before the arrival of the army on the northern route, this gang of thieves really dared to attack the city on a large scale.

Yesterday in the south of the city, didn't they just rely on strong ships and cannons to cruise on the canal and fire a few cannons to pretend? Obviously, they lacked enough infantry strength to break the city directly.

And in the west of the city, Cui Duyan also has his own opinions about the fiasco breakout battle.

Judging from the battle situation, this group of thieves is indeed seriously understaffed, and he judged that under the continuous attacks, the thieves in front of him were actually clumsy and seemed to be very difficult.

If it weren't for the fact that the firearms in their hands were really sharp, and the military lord had to self-defeatingly divide his troops to outflank them, he firmly believed that if he relied on himself, he would be able to defeat them in one fell swoop at the cost of casualties and pile up heads......

Unexpectedly, the pro-soldiers had just been dispatched, and when he was still thinking nonsense, he heard the rapid burst of gunfire gradually intensifying.

When several of his officers ran up to the city in a panic, and the people sent out never returned, he believed that the attack of the Ming thieves was true.

For a while, his original self-confidence of "everything under control" began to disappear little by little.

Suddenly, several bright lights flashed in the direction of Xicheng, followed by a violent explosion.

His heart sank suddenly, and he hurriedly turned his head to look - there, there were still his descendants, and there were nearly 1,000 people in the Chinese army's standard battalion......

Cui Duyan did not voluntarily ask to stay in the city, to be exact, he was forced to act as the order to set fire to the city.

At that time, when he received Ma Jinbao's secret letter, he was quite a bit of a tragic heart of "the wind is sluggish and the water is cold".

In fact, like the others, he was also slandering Ma Jinbao - this top boss was not as calm as he once appeared, and he actually ran faster than a rabbit before the order in the city completely collapsed, and he just slipped away on his own.

However, since the Lord of the Military Gate entrusted him with the surviving more than 2,000 Shanxi disciples, as a hardcore cronie who had followed the Lord since the beginning of the war, he understood that he could not retreat no matter what.

Although Cui Duyan is not a loyal general, at least he knows whose food to eat and who he lives for, but he has no idea of running away from the desert - he must bring his children back to the hands of the military gate.

In addition, he also restrained his soldiers from participating in the looting.

It's not that he has any love for the people, but in such a chaotic situation, order is already difficult to control, and if he connives, his subordinates will rob like the Zhejiang soldiers, and the team will soon disintegrate......

He quickly made a plan, and until Meng Tietou came to question, he still had some meaning of "mountain people have their own clever plans".

In his plan, there are still two groups of people who have been driven out of the city tomorrow, and after trying to attract the attention of the thieves, the fire that burns the city will be started tomorrow night.

Naturally, as a veteran who has been licking blood with a knife for more than ten years, he thinks that he is thick and fine, and he has already arranged a backhand for himself - except for Ximen, almost all of the people who really set fire to it are Zhejiang soldiers.

He knew very well that once the fire started, the north gate was the only way to survive.

With the help of explosives and oil, the fierce fire will engulf everything in a very short time, and the Zhejiang soldiers who have been defeated by this military plane want to retreat after setting the fire, which is already overwhelming.

He will not hand over his life to others to guard - at this moment, in addition to the more than 1,000 Zhejiang soldiers who were already stationed in the camp outside the city, more than 1,500 people from the main force of his Chinese army's main battalion were gathered in the large camp under his feet.

In the evening, he quietly transferred two of the four battalions under his command, which were still relatively complete.

However, under the chaos, he could no longer find anyone to go to the west gate to change the guard, and there was really no way, so he had to leave the front camp and the left camp there temporarily.

Both battalions suffered more than half of the casualties and were largely disabled.

Ximen suffered heavy losses in the first battle, not counting that Meng Tietou's men, his standard battalion alone, nearly 400 soldiers were killed and missing.

In addition, more than 200 wounded soldiers were collected back to the city, which was the most troublesome for him - these wounded could not be taken away at all.

After some trade-offs, he made a "wise" choice - to survive with a broken tail!

His plan was that Simon would be the first to light the fire, and he was thinking that while the rest of the world was still watching, the two battalions under his command were full of men, and at least five or six hundred men had time to escape......